I am like 90% sure that a lot of those are accidental.
The default auto message is “is this item still available?” on damn near all these kinds of apps and tools. It doesn’t ask for confirmation a lot of the time, and touch screens kinda suck. Especially if you have fat sausage fingers like the average Craigslist user.
This. This, this, and this. This is a UI issue as much as anything else.
When you have a physical store, all day people will come in, look around, ask you detailed questions about your product, tell you how much they love what you sell, and then leave without buying anything.
I think this is just the experience of selling, not just selling online.
I used to use best buy as a sales floor to view things then buy the same model on Amazon. If the sales people pestered me, id ask them questions, then just openly say, its $30 less on Amazon, i just wanted to see one in person before I bought. My laptop in like 2007 was $150 more, almost half the Amazon price in markup.
Yeah, although with a proper store, you can at least still hope that they’ll return in the future or tell others about your store…
Then proceed to buy it online.
This has easily been happening for at least the last 25-30 years.
“Yes and I’m asking 95% retail value and it’s only two years old!”
Facebook market place is a silly place.
I stopped using the FB marketplace for the opposite reason after briefly suffering through selling my stuff before a move. I would post “$20 couch, barely used, pickup only” and get absolutely flooded with “Can you do free? Also drop it off at my house I don’t have a car.”
I’m looking at a new camera. The new ones are on sale for $2100. The used ones listed on Facebook are usually $2200+. The used places that sell cameras are also at or above the new price.
I recognize the sale won’t go on forever, but it ended over Christmas, then a new one started a few days later, so I’m sure it’ll be back on sale again before long.
Read the room, sellers. I know you paid more for it, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth that now. The lower new price reduces the value of the used ones.
I want a set of Powerblock adjustable dumbbells and brand new they’re about $470. People want $350-$400 and they’re not even close to “like new.” Missing tags, broken brackets, rusty, and obvious signs of use. I’d pay $250 for a used set, but everyone I’ve messaged says they’re firm in their price. The kicker is that there are about 20 sets for sale within 50 miles of me.
FYI, if you’re in the US, Woot.com has similar sets pretty regularly. Here are some they have now.
Oh wow, I’ve never heard of this website. Just ordered the base set up to 50lbs. Thanks for the tip and now I don’t have to drive 30 miles to pickup a sweat stained set in a parking lot.
It was better before they were part of Amazon, but they do have good deals sometimes.
They know what they got
Weights are the worst, lol. I saw a post with a pile of rusted bars and plates asking for $0.50 a pound. Bitch, that better include a tetanus shot too.
Also, if it’s a piece of furniture they’re absolutely not going to tell you what the measurements are.
Me: giving away some stuff
Craigslist 1: I’m on my way right now!
Craigslist 2: I’ll be over after work.
Craigslist 3: headed that way.
Craigslist 4: hold it for me I’ll be there in an hour!
Me: still has item
That’s why anything I’m giving away I just put it outside and say first person to show up gets to keep it. It either gets sent off to someone who saw it or it gets ‘stolen’, either way not my problem anymore
My friend had a couch in decent condition he was trying to give away. Left it at the end of his driveway with a big free sign on it. (on a busy enough street inappropriate reputable enough town where peope trust things like that)
Left it out for a couple weeks, tossing it back in the garage when it was going to rain.
Eventually he changed the sign to read: $100 OBO with a phone number (that was a fake phone number lol)
Couch was ‘stolen’ in under an hour.
Yeah, same problem on the other side.
Ad, I have this thing, it’s available, don’t ask, if it’s listed, it’s available
Hey, I want this, I’ll pay cash, when are you available.
crickets
2 days later: still interested
crickets
Probably just laziness or cluelessness on the side of the seller - item sold or they changed their mind but they’re unable to remove the ad or even mark it as sold.
Judging by how many empty emails I get where the subject line is the name of one of my apps, I’m pretty sure people just absently click contact links, panic/don’t care, and then click send instead of discard/cancel.
I always write something in the line of “thanks, I’ll get back to you when I make up my mind”
Well, you’re a well-adjusted person.
I stopped selling on Craigslist after being ghosted at meetups multiple times.
Misses the hundreds of other booths where when asked gets ignored, or the booth then just disappears. Edit: autocorrect ate an o
I can kind of see ignoring it if all they send is “Is this item still available?” since it’s the default opening line and it very well could’ve been an accident or non-serious interest. Not saying it’s necessarily a good idea, but if someone had the comic situation happen to them frequently, I could see ignoring people who send that and nothing else.
I think you might be having a stroke
lol. I think autocorrect might have eaten some of it, but like everyone off pointing out…. Both selling and buying in these spaces suck
Haha, just happened to me a couple minutes ago!
